In a planner pickle

Oh I am in a right pickle! Those of you who have been following my ramblings (bless you! Have you really nothing better to do?) will know:

1. I love the A6 size of the Mulberry agenda
2. I love Indie, but he’s not bright enough
3. I like to use my binder as a wallet as well as a planner
4. I need a colour pop as the weather is miserable and I live in Scotland where the sun doesn’t bother appearing for most of the day in winter
5. Red, my (very) shiny new Mulberry is both gorgeous and challenged on the pocket front
6. I haven’t quite fallen in love with Red, but each time I contemplate abandoning her, I get suckered back
7. I’ve just taken delivery of a new wine Holborn
8. Wine Holborn has great colour and zillions of pockets
9. Pink and blue Baroques are begging to be used again and are fabulous
10. Paperchase have some nice diary inserts which are colourful enough but not garish (colour-pop!)
11. The Paperchase inserts will fit in a personal filofax but not Red or Indie
12. Other Paperchase inserts will fit in the pocket size filofax
13. Pocket filofaxes can also be a bit challenged on the card-slot/pocket front
14. But… I managed to use a pocket-size for several months earlier in the year
15. I have a gorgeous black pocket Baroque begging to be used

 Hmm.

Although I am pretty certain what my set-up will be for 2013 (the set-up that has proven itself over the last however long: goals to next-actions, monthly plans, weekly plans, 3-6 months of WO2P, 1 week of DPP) I currently have no idea which binder to use.

Hence… the vote. Please let me know which set-up to go for in 2013 by voting in the poll in the side-bar: Mulberry (Indie), Mulberry (Red), personal Baroque, personal Holborn, pocket Baroque. Poll closes on the last day of 2012!

Planner Fail?

It’s not really planner fail in the conventional sense… though, as I’m not actually using it, maybe it is.

The love-affair hasn’t ended in the usual way… that someone hunkier, prettier, bigger, smaller, different has trotted along and caught my eye… no, it’s my old issue with needing colour. If Mr Holborn had been scarlet instead of brown, I would still be using him.

Those of you who have followed me, will know what’s coming… my darling Mulberry is, well, just a bit dull.

Oh, don’t get me wrong, I still adore the size and the ability to buy A6 things or print my own things 4 to a page of A4 and all that… he’s just, well… a bit ‘challenged’ on the bright and gaudy side. And my OCD-tendencies make it hard for me to have him all subtle and light brown on the outside but bright and colourful on the inside. Had he been black, I could have done that, but not brown. I know. I’m my own worst enemy!

So what to do? Do I move back into one of the personal Baroques? Look for a bright Mulberry (do they exist?)? Try out the new pocket Baroque (which, though black, I could manage to jazz up on the inside)?

What’s making all this worse, is that Paperchase have opened a new store near to me and I am itching to go in and buy their lovely inserts, which fit the pocket and the personal but not the Mulberry.

Hmm.

Advice guys?